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When we left, the boy threw the knife at my friend - but it hit me instead

Yao Huilin

Zeng Zhiming, chief neurosurgeon a Dongguang City Third People's Hospital in south China, said: "From CT scans we found that the knife was wedged in a tiny slit between the child's parietal and occipital bones.

"This space is usually non-existent in adults, but because the patient is still young her skull has yet to fully develop."

Yao is now recovering in the hospital, in Guangdong Province, after Dr Zhiming and his team successfully removed the weapon from her skull.